The invention relates to underwater acoustic sensor networks and a node deployment and networking method thereof. A target water area is covered in a hierarchical clustering manner, the networks are divided into three hierarchies, and each hierarchy is divided into multiple continuous 3D spaces; common underwater sensor nodes are uniformly distributed in different depths of the different hierarchies of the target area, sense and collect physical environment data of the surrounding, and form self-organizing clustering networks via the sound wave links; movable underwater nodes can move in the target water area, assess the water quality change of routes, and directly transmit an assessment result to water surface buoy nodes; and the water surface buoy nodes is mixed with communication modules, receive, process, gather and integrate underwater network data via the sound wave communication module, and transmit the network data to a land base station in the multi-hop manner via the radio electromagnetic wave communication module. The underwater acoustic sensor networks and the node deployment and networking method thereof can realize remote monitoring, is wide in monitoring range, high in expansibility and reliability, suitable for underwater applications, and has a good application prospect.